One hundred years ago this month, women working in fish canning factories on France’s north-west coast held a strike that has gone down in history as one of the earliest examples of women successfully mobilising to demand working rights.
Hugging a bay in Finistère, where northern France juts out into the Atlantic Ocean, the port of Douarnenez doesn’t look like an obvious hotbed of industrial revolt, with its picturesque pastel-coloured houses lining the harbour. But the town's narrow alleyways were once the scene of a movement that opened a new chapter in women's working rights.
